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    sharkdp/fd

    A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

    cli
    command-line
    filesystem
    hacktoberfest
    regex
    rust
    Rust
    Apache-2.0
    45.1K stars
    1.3K forks
    163 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 7, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 217 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #89 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 7, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a simple, fast, and user-friendly command-line tool to find filesystem entries using regex or glob patterns.
    • Offers significantly faster search performance than traditional 'find' by leveraging parallelized directory traversal and sensible defaults.
    • Use for quickly locating files or directories by name or pattern in large codebases or file systems with minimal configuration.
    • Use for executing commands in parallel on search results, such as batch file processing or automated formatting across multiple files.
    • Use for integrating with fuzzy finders, editors, or graphical menus to enhance interactive file searching and selection workflows.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    fd is a program to find entries in your filesystem. It is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find. While it does not aim to support all of find's powerful functionality, it provides sensible (opinionated) defaults for a majority of use cases.

    Excerpt from the sharkdp/fd README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Sep 17: +113Nov 8: +22

    +899 stars over 73 days across 9 snapshot days; best day +113 on Sep 17.

    Forks

    1.3K+182

    Open issues

    205+14

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